How is it that this happened? What made the primer go off? Simple rolling off the table to the floor doesn't seem like it should be enough. Not to mention it would appear based on the roll, that the round didnt land primer straight down on something (not that that should make it go off anyway).

The video doesn't show but I wonder what kind of damage it could have done? I can't imagine the pellets projecting much more than a foot or two.

Every time I drop a shell I cringe a little bit thinking oh no. Now I know there's a good reason for it

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I hear Glock just came out with a new pistol . I hear it's a tribute to the senate and the house of representatives . It's called the congressman . It hardly ever works and can't be fired .

Something had to hit the primer when it fell with enough force to discharge the shell. I'm betting something was in the floor that it landed on.

Since the shell was not enclosed in a guns chamber the powders force was not concentrated in any one direction, and it had much less power. Likely the shot in the shell had very little speed and damage or injuries would have been slight. In fact the much lighter plastic shell moved with much greater force than the shot. It is unlikely anyone would have suffered serious injuries from a shell discharging outside of a gun. I still wouldn't have wanted to be in the area.

The guy in the video didn't seem to be doing anything irrespnsible or dangerous. A shell simply rolled off the edge of the table while he was talking. Most all of us have had similar things happen, he was just very unlucky in the way it landed.

a shell going off outside of a chamber, wether full of powder, or just a primed case, can propel the primer with enough force to pass through a few inches of muscle or soft tissue. A friend had one travel through three inches of calf muscle to lodge just beneath the skin on the opposite side of his leg. It could easily have neen a very serious injury.

What was the point of the video in the first place? If the shell didn't go off, it would've been a video of him doing what exactly?

I cannot hear the audio clearly, don't think it is even English. It appears he is trying to make some sort of instructional video. I don't see anything negligent, just a wierd accident and hopefully no one was injured.

I think it's fake...it looks like the explosion happens right at the back corner of the table. The shell rolled off the edge well to the right of there, and any flash from the explosion would appear down at floor level.

I want to say that primers are less predictable than what we want them to be.

I get into debates all the time with people who think primer sensitivity is a constant. That is primers are all the same and they all take the same amount of energy to set them off.

Based on frequency of slamfires reports, there is a reason why semi automatic firearms with free floating pins have reports of slamfires, and those mechanisms that have captive firing pins, reports are rare to the point of non existence.

A Pennsylvania woman was shot in the leg while shopping at a local department store on Tuesday. But in a nearly unbelievable twist, no gun was involved. Apparently, the woman was carrying the bullet in her purse, when it mysteriously exploded.

"She did not have a gun in her purse or on her," Montoursville Deputy Police Chief Jason Bentley told the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Bentley said the woman, whose name has not been released to the public, "was not aware" she was carrying two or three bullets inside her purse at the time of the accident.
The 56-year-old woman was taken to a local hospital and was eventually discharged. In fact, the woman initially declined medical treatment, only heading to the Williamsport Regional Medical Center after her son reportedly encouraged her to do so.

"Something must of hit the primer of one of the bullets," Bentley said. "The bullet stayed in the purse, but its casing put a hole in the purse and caused a minor leg wound."

Bullets exploding outside of a gun are a rare occurrence but are not entirely unprecedented. In March, a bullet being used as evidence in a court case exploded in a bag and shot 20 feet across a courtroom. No one was hurt in the incident. It was surmised that the bullet exploded after its tip bounced against another bullet tip in the same evidence bag, according to the Telegram & Gazette.

1. What's the purpose of the video. And is the guy mumbling while making an instructional video...? As someone else said, if there was no AD, what was the purpose of recording him showing the shot shells to the camera while mubbling something?

2. Purposefully non-level table.

3. Watch him flick-roll the shell into the others that are stacked in a row - painfully obvious he is trying to get the last one to roll off the table.

4. The explosion doesn't occur where the shell fell and would have landed.

Total fake.

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For it to fire, it would have to land directly on the primer. That means the shot would be 90 degrees straight up. Not at a 70 degree angle toward the corner wall.

Again, it is quite telling that he rolled the shell toward the others. Anybody who has handled shells/bullets on a table doesn't roll them around unless you WANT to get on your hands and knees and root around on the floor to gather them up. You either put them in a tight pile, or in a container, or stand them on end.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF SHOWING THE PRIMERS AND SHELLS TO THE CAMERA WHILE MUMBLING??

Again, I am sure this is a staged fake.

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The guy was most likely starting a video for something else . When the shell went off he need to stop and start over .

__________________As of this date 8-18-14 at 6:42am I became a proud grandfather I guess I'm officially old
I hear Glock just came out with a new pistol . I hear it's a tribute to the senate and the house of representatives . It's called the congressman . It hardly ever works and can't be fired .

I have seen an actual shell go off, in a bolt action shotgun, the striker somehow fired when the bolt was open as the loaded shell was being extracted.
The explosion ripped the side of the shell open, the shot charge and wads stayed in the shell, it didn't even open the crimp.
It went more poof than bang.

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